We have lizards too...

Not only are there snakes living nearby; there are lizards too. So far I am pretty sure that at least three lizards live in our yard. I have named them West Side Andy (he lives on the patio to the west of our house... and I once went to a concert of a local musician in Madison called West Side Andy, so the name seemed to fit), The Lizard (this guy was the first we saw, he's out just about every day sunning himself on the stucco walls of the east side patio), and The Little Lizard (self explantory, right?). Here's a picture of West Side Andy half in the shadow of a tree and half in the sun. He's about four inches long.



West Side Andy is the dumbest of the three lizards, in my opinion. He seems to think that if he freezes, you can't see him. While this might work when he's lying on a twig in dappled shade, it's not so convincing as he's sunning himself on our tan stucco patio or the red brick patio floor. But we pretend because I don't want to hurt his feelings.